Articles on the History of the Internet and World-Wide Web

2. Connection Speed, Bandwidth and Download TimeUntil recently, due to high cost, broadband was a luxury mainly confined to business users but its availability is increasing. "For the first time yet, broadband connections have accounted for more than half of all Internet connections in the US...

3. A Brief History of the World Wide WebThe Web as it is known colloquially, functions according to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Hypertext is perhaps the Web's most important feature for it enables all web content to be linked. ...

4. A Brief History of the InternetThe Internet was born out of a military research project funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the 1960s, whose goal was to devise a way of successfully transmitting information across large distances in the event of a nuclear attack....